I put in the dirty-eared doll example because it had just been relayed to
me and I thought it was cute. Excuse my grandfatherly mis-direction.
Today I am suffering through writing a talk on culture and development to
give in Loughborough. 50 min=25 double spaced pages. Argh. I have made
several false starts. One interesting problem to come out of my fight with
these words is that I am focussing on ontogeny and I figured I could simply
"cut down" chapter 7 of CP. Wrong. I find that over and over again what
is said about ontogeny can't be made coherent without the properties of
culture developed in Chap5 and 'interweaving" discussion in Chapter 6. Of
course, I knew that "ahead of time" theoretically, but in trying to solve
the problem, I felt a kind of micro-genetic twinge, as if my theoretical
knowledge had just risen to the concrete.
Now, if only I can find a way to melt that concrete down to 25 pages, all
will be well.
I sure wish I could be seeing tall ships sailing silently through the water.
Here in San Diego the Naval Airstation's hotshot pilots are doing an airshow
that makes it sound like the Somme in late 1915 and my border collie keeps
wanting to sit in my lap out of fear.... which doesn't help the writing
at all!
mike